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A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’

March 12, 2024

In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to

Nell Freudenberger and Eric Klinenberg at Klinenberg's book launch.Photos: John McCarten/Brooklyn Eagle

Emotions ran high at Tuesday’s standing-room-only book launch for Eric Klinenberg’s book about 2020 — the year COVID changed our lives

February 15, 2024

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Tuesday may have been Brooklyn’s snowiest day in two years, but it was a case of nor’easter be damned for the launch of

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says story of firing a gun at school, recounted in his book, never happened

January 10, 2024

Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting

2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of AI helped shape the story of publishing

December 8, 2023

Book publishing in 2023 was a story of cooling sales and rising conflict, marked by legal action, protests, censorship and the impact of forces well beyond the

Brooklyn Public Library announces 2023 Book Prize winners

November 3, 2023

Brooklyn Public Library announced the winners of the ninth annual Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize on Monday, awarding Lamya H the nonfiction prize for “Hijab Butch

New book by retired Brooklyn College prof is violent true story: Italian cops vs. mafia

October 27, 2023

Paul Moses’ gripping new book tells a story that begins in Sicily on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night,

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

September 20, 2023

John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave

Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell

August 14, 2023

For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an

Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion

August 8, 2023

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House